protão
The verdict
“protão” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: partícula sub-atómica de carga positiva que faz parte do núcleo de todos os átomos; a carga do protão é de 1,609x10⁻¹⁹ C (coulombs), igual à carga do eletrão, porém, sua massa é 1.840 vezes maior; ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | protão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɾɔ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “protão” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for protão is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɾɔ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "partícula sub-atómica de carga positiva que faz parte do núcleo de todos os átomos; a carga do protão é de 1,609x10⁻¹⁹ C (coulombs), igual à carga do eletrão, porém, sua massa é 1.840 vezes maior; ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for protão in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is protão, spelled P-R-O-T-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1partícula sub-atómica de carga positiva que faz parte do núcleo de todos os átomos; a carga do protão é de 1,609x10⁻¹⁹ C (coulombs), igual à carga do eletrão, porém, sua massa é 1.840 vezes maior; o número de protões (número atómico) no núcleo de um átomo caracteriza os elementos químicos
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Using “protão”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-O-T-Ã-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pɾɔ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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